Open type features not working as expected

[Matthieu Cannavo]

Hi everyone,

I came into a problem with the support of open type feature in Publisher. 

I’m using Publisher 1.10.4.

I create a typeface with Glyphs app (https://glyphsapp.com/fr/learn/stylistic-sets) and added some extra stylistic set and replacement features as shown in screen-capture "Stylistic-set-panel_in_Glyphs.png" When testing within the software, everything works fine. Plus I add a name for each features so I can find it easily.

When switching to Publisher everything goes wrong. I can’t find any of the sets and the one I have seems to have random names (Alternative 1 and so on). Worse, the behaviour is really unexpected as it seems that some features are "merged" and other are partially working (see screen-capture "Font_in_Publisher.png". The only thing working fine is the default mode.

Please help me understand if I’m doing something wrong or if it’s just the opentype support that is not doing what it should. Maybe I have to edit my stylistic sets differently but I did it as explain in the available tutorials.

Thanks a lot,

 

Matthieu cannavo

[walt.farrell]

It would help to have your font, so one of our font experts can look at what you've done in detail.

[Matthieu Cannavo]

Hi Walt and thanks for the fast answer, 
The font is still under development and there is a lot of kerning to do and so on, but here it is, source file and one export

Glass-Regular.otf Glass.glyphs

[Alfred]

You seem to have used non-standard names (e.g. hor, ver, dotz, slaz) instead of ss01, ss02, etc. I suspect the behaviour of the font will improve if you correct this.

[Matthieu Cannavo]

Hi Alfred, seems to me that any name should work but I will try that, thanks a lot

[Alfred]

5 minutes ago, Matthieu Cannavo said:

seems to me that any name should work

From the Glyphs tutorial:

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Back to our a variations. The key to the stylistic variation is the glyph name. One default a, obviously, is called a. The alternate variation should be named a.ss01. The .ss01 suffix simply means it’s the a of the first stylistic set.

If you want more stylistic sets, all you need to do is add the appropriate suffix to the glyph name: .ss02 corresponds to the second stylistic set, .ss03 to the third one etc. Since the maximum number of sets is twenty, your suffixes can go all the way up to .ss20.

If you stick to this naming convention, Glyphs can build the feature code for you.

 

[Matthieu Cannavo]

Yeah I know this convention but when you’re building a complex system sometimes it’s easier to come with your own name... didn’t know that it was so rigid but thanks again

[Matthieu Cannavo]

Ok seems to work now, thanks again!